video freezes with buzzing sound

[DomBJ]

Hi,
After a synaptic updates, I started to have problems when paying videos on firefox: its freezes after 5 min with a buzzing sound. If I pauses and replay, it goes well for a few minutes and freezes again.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-69-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.12 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter vt: 7
    dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: T100TA v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: T100TA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: T100TA.314 date: 08/13/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BATC charge: 12.2 Wh (54.5%) condition: 22.4/30.6 Wh (73.3%)
    volts: 3.7 min: 3.8 model: Intel SR 1 SR Real Battery type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: Discharging cycles: 1218
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Atom Z3775 bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: Silvermont rev: 8 cache: L1: 224 KiB L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 621 high: 800 min/max: 533/2399 cores: 1: 619 2: 800
    3: 533 4: 533 bogomips: 11733
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: DSI-1
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0f31 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1368x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: DSI-1 res: 1368x768 hz: 60 size: N/A modes: 1368x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (BYT) v: 4.2 Mesa 22.2.5
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio
    message: bus/chip ids unavailable
  Device-2: sof-bytcht rt5640 driver: SOF message: bus/chip ids unavailable
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-69-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Message: No device data found.
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 65.97 GiB used: 30.75 GiB (46.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 model: 00000 size: 29.81 GiB type: SSD
    serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
  ID-2: /dev/mmcblk2 vendor: SK Hynix model: HBG4e size: 29.12 GiB
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0x6 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda type: USB model: USB DISK 2.0 size: 7.04 GiB type: N/A
    serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 28.01 GiB used: 18.8 GiB (67.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk2p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 328 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/mmcblk2p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 1.33 GiB used: 732.4 MiB (53.9%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos:
  Packages: 2257 apt: 2250 flatpak: 7
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 229 Uptime: 1d 4h 1m wakeups: 3 Memory: 1.82 GiB
  used: 1.42 GiB (78.0%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12/9 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

Any help will be much appreciated!

[Reddog1]

Memory: 1.82 GiB
used: 1.42 GiB (78.0%)

You have Cinnamon installed, which is the most memory-heavy of the Mint desktops (4GB is needed for Cinnamon). Running a browser and watching videos is a memory intensive activity. I'm actually surprised that this works for you at all, and atom processors are weak, too.

Open a terminal and run top. It will show you the real-time memory (and cache and buffering) being used.

The MATE desktop might (I say might) work better for you. Mint Xfce, maybe, but Mint isn't a low-resource distribution. Anti-X would probably be a good bet. If you go with an arch-based, EndeavourOS runs well with 2GB and Xfce--I've used it to host VM's on 4GB laptops with the VM using 2GB of available ram.

Bottom line is, I think you're pushing your hardware past its limits.

[SMG]

After a synaptic updates, I started to have problems when paying videos on firefox: its freezes after 5 min with a buzzing sound. If I pauses and replay, it goes well for a few minutes and freezes again.

That sounds like the known issue on Atom CPUs which your computer has.

Please check the Tips for Troubleshooting Sound Issues Rev. 1 and go to the section titled "BEEP with Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Computers" which is the last section in the first post for a solution which has worked for a number of people.

CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Atom Z3775 bits: 64 type: MCP
smt: <unsupported> arch: Silvermont rev: 8 cache: L1: 224 KiB L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 621 high: 800 min/max: 533/2399 cores: 1: 619 2: 800
3: 533 4: 533 bogomips: 11733
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Audio:
Device-1: Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio
message: bus/chip ids unavailable
Device-2: sof-bytcht rt5640 driver: SOF message: bus/chip ids unavailable
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-69-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes

If that does not work, we will need to further investigate.

[DomBJ]

Problem solved!
Many thanks SMG!

[SMG]

Problem solved!
Many thanks SMG!

Glad it worked. Please go to your first post in this topic, click the pencil icon, and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the title so others know you are no longer seeking help on this issue.

[heerenleed]

I have an Asus E200AH which has only 2GB memory and 32GB storage, and I had the same problem which was indeed solved this way. Just to let you know it plays video without a problem, in spite of its small memory.